It’s been a quiet winter, concert-wise, for the Gaslights — which is to be expected as frontwoman Abigail Henderson continues her cancer treatments. But ray of sunshine has broken through da haze: The band has just announced a new album due out this summer, and you can download the first single, “California,” for free below or at thegaslights.com. I think…
Our friend and Ultra Music contest winner Shaun Duval has just returned from the Winter Music Conference in Miami — got home last night, in fact — and he’s still in the mood to celebrate. Download his new, WMC-inspired DJ mix below. MP3: Shaun Duval, WMC ’09 mix Reports Duval: “I had a blast in Miami. Highlights were DJ Mehdi,…
Uh-oh, Kansas City Live isn’t happy with the so-called dress-code compromise. I just got this e-mail. The rest of the e-mail urges me to contact the mayor and the City Council and tell them that “I am against restricting the Kansas City Power & Light District dress code and I support the businesses’ rights to set standards.” It was in…
The Kansas City Business Journal apparently got ahold of an e-mail sent to The Kansas City Star’s advertisers saying the daily will combine its main news and local sections — and business section four days a week — in the next week or 10 days. The Biz Journal quotes the e-mail saying the business section will be folded into a…
KCK Police released the name of the woman found shot to death last Thursday in the 7200 block of Gilmore Avenue. The victim was 20-year-old Olivia M. Anaekwe of Shawnee, Kansas. View Larger Map Tipsters should call 913-573-6020 or 816-474-8477. Categories: News Tags: homicides, KCK Police, Olivia M. Anaekwe, shooting
The in word of the moment — thanks to the movie I Love You Man — is “bromance”: two straight men who are so close, they share almost everything. “Almost” being the key word. I’ll leave you to decide whether the relationship between Quizno’s worker Scott and the sandwich oven is a bromance or something more. With lines like “put…
The health of Crawdaddy magazine founder Paul Williams (not the Muppets-identified ’70s singer-songwriter) has been in decline since a bicycle accident in 1995 caused serious brain damage. In an entry today on the Web site Boing Boing, author Jonathan Lethem tells readers that Williams, 60, now requires full-time care — a huge financial liability on top of the devastating emotional…
Last year Fat City called locally crafted Honor Vodka the wasabi of vodka and said it was “like swallowing a swath of silk with a torch tied to the end.” Both comments were meant as compliments and it turns out real vodka judges agree. Lawrence-distilled Honor Vodka won a silver medal last week at the World Spirits Competition in San…
Kansas City Police released the names of two homicide victims this morning. Yesterday, the body of 19-year-old Talisha Williams was found in a yard in the 1600 block of East 40th Street. The KCPD also released the name of 27-year-old Mark Ashley, whose body was found by a relative in the 5500 block of Woodland Avenue. In both cases, no…
Finding free complimentary food is an art form lost on most but college students and journalists. With times being what they are, people are looking for short-cuts wherever they can and Arizona Republic writer Scott Craven was quick to round-up the best complimentary eats. Some of Craven’s ideas are practical if not very inventive. Yes, a person can snack like…
I stopped by 801 Chop House early yesterday to see if the World Wine Tour was really serving more than 300 wines. It was. The tour opened to the public at 5:30 p.m. but from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. was an industry-only event that resembled a street market, not a hoity-toity wine tasting. In each and every corner of…
Recently, 4:20 enthusiasts Shanin & Parks have begun fobbing off T-shirts to anyone willing to whisper “cooter” to them. We were shocked to see these shirts turning up everywhere. For example, we never expected to see a Shanin & Parks shirt … with a statue of Sojourner Truth. Categories: News Tags: KMBZ, Shanin & Parks
Basketball players pound their chest after a powerful dunk. The daily newspaper equivalent of the pec slap is the copyright symbol. “©” made an appearance on the front page of Sunday’s Kansas City Star. The Steve Kraske-written story said the FBI is investigating Missouri lawmakers for trading favors for campaign donations. Kraske’s sources are solid. Three lawmakers told The Star’s…
In July of last year, Portland band the Prids (whose founding members met in college at Missouri Western State in St. Joseph) had a serious van accident on the road to L.A. when a tire blew. Several members were injured. Last October, the band’s label, five03, began putting together a tribute CD to help pay for the band’s medical and…
%{}%T. Boone Pickens, the octogenarian who is spending a fortune made in oil promoting wind power and natural gas, will be in Lawrence on Sunday to pitch his plan. The Dole Institute of Politics hosts the town-hall event at 4:30 p.m. U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback will introduce Pickens, the subject of a recent feature in The Pitch. Brownback has a…
Yesterday, Lidia Bastianich was in town lending her time and fame to the KCPT pledge drive and promoting her restaurant. I stopped by Lidia’s Restaurant in the afternoon right after she had finished a luncheon with more than 100 of her fans. As the last of her lunch guests left, a small lady showing a little cleavage came out and…
%{}% Despite the weather on Saturday, the Eat Local Expo went on. Here are some pictures of what went down. The Google search “best tamales in Kansas City” goes to a local blogger’s site. The only problem is now he has to figure out where the best tamales in Kansas City actually are. The plan is back on! Maybe there…
We’re saddened this morning to hear of the death of Jim Gasser, subject of Ben Paynter’s May, 2007 cover story “There Can Be Only One Foam Sword Fighter.” Gasser died in a car crash Monday in New Mexico. Paynter’s portrait of Gasser was unusual, in that the writer became the apprentice. Seeking to understand Gasser’s mastery of Barbarian foam sword…
%{}% Okay, so the DNC is tiredly introducing some anti-Rush Limbaugh billboards in Rush’s current hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida. Here is a picture their thunderingly dull and un-clever brainchild: So, they’re gonna, what? Drive slowly around his office all day, blaring a horn that plays “La Cucaracha?” Wasn’t that whole Rush thing, like, back in February? I was…
I am not Shepard Fairey. But I do love running the picture of O’Fallon loon Cynthia Davis through the Obamicon. Seemed appropriate, since the Missouri state Representative (a loosely used term) won’t drop the whole President-Obama-isn’t really-an-American shtick. Davis has joined the “birther movement,” which wants Obama to prove at a jury trial that he’s really a citizen — even…
Earlier this month, I talked with Nicholas Segura about a Daily Show skit that he had just filmed. The skit finally aired last night. Segura, who runs an ethnic talent agency with Luis J. Garcia, hopped in the back of Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi’s truck and was whisked away to Excelsior Spring to fill in for a guy who…
